It's generally tricky negotiating the price of a house, whether you're buying or selling. But a recent study from Kelly Shue and Paul...

Amazon is opening new stores — in the real world. And in true Big Tech fashion the experience is meant to emphasize convenience. All you...

China is the world's biggest rice producer. So why did it agree to buy two shipping containers of rice from the U.S.? Planet Money...

Workers in sales jobs, or those who have access to a company's trade secrets, are often asked to sign noncompete clauses as part of their...

Attendance at most sporting events has dropped in the last decade — and continues to fall. Sports teams have put most of their efforts...

Niche sports, such as cornhole, axe throwing and even professional arm wrestling, are beginning to attract interest and money. These less...

The online food delivery industry has managed to solve an issue that has managed to stifle online retailers-- the so-called...

Games that may have been played at a party with a beer cup in hand, or before that big college football game — like cornhole, darts or...

That pricing disconnect comes from a lot of moving parts in the industry. For example, there's an oversupply of coffee beans, and...

A lot of money is pouring into the global diamond industry, but demand for diamonds has been less than lustrous of late. But, at the same...

We take a look at a problem that has dogged humans for centuries: How do you divide goods fairly? #Economy

Enrollment of both undergrads and graduate students has been declining for years. Meanwhile colleges are getting more creative in finding...

India's population is 1.3 billion. So it only makes sense that American streaming giants Amazon and Netflix would want to get into the...

The Japanese are eating less rice. Blame TV, the internet, burgers, Italian food, a growing economy. Blame the lunch ladies! Rice...

Iga, a small Japanese city and the birthplace of the ninja, is facing a serious problem. Today on the show, Sally Herships goes to Iga to...

Radio reporter Sally Herships, a native New Yorker and longtime friend of the show, has been obsessed with a particular block in midtown...

Colleges have a problem: fewer people are applying every year. Universities are competing like crazy for any edge they can get. Some are...

Over the summer, Sally did a callout on social media asking where public media journalists get their story ideas. The responses were...

The foreign-born population in the U.S. is now at an all time high — more than 10 percent. And while recession-time jobs are hard to come...

No one wants to badmouth Florence Nightingale, but a new degree for nurses is causing bad blood between doctors and their longtime...